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This Vaporeon in meant to be an all-around wall who can safely pass on wish. With protect, it can also heal itself. Surf is a powerful move with STAB and great coverage, and ice beam is just to keep those annoyng dragons away.

The Forretress is the spiker/toxic spiker/rapid spinner. It can be switched in early in the game to set up its entry hazards and can also be switched in late to clear the path for the sweepers with Rapid Spin.

The goal for these 3 pokemon is to weaken the opposing team, set up entry hazards and badly poisons, so the sweepers can come in and finish it off.

This Gyarados is meant to do what it was born to: destroy. After 2 dragon dances, there is no one that can outspeed him, and it will crush everything that its already weakened. Waterfall is a reliable STAB move, stone edge deals with flying-electric types (zapdos) and earthquake counters any other electric pokemon that kicks in.

As a late game sweeper, Breloom's role it to strike mindlessly until everyone is down. Substitute is to prevent any 1HKO, and spore is to attack without fear. Focus Punch strikes heavily, and seed bomb deals damage to everything that it's immune or resistant to fighting.

Ok I'm going to go through each Pokemon individually
I'm new to rating competitively so apologise for any mishaps.
That skarmory seems like a good lead the one thing which I would change is give it shed shell instead of leftovers just in case the other person has a magazone which would cause a lot of problems right of the bat, but its preference.

That vaporeon seems alright although I mainly use it to baton pass some defences with acid armour but a wish passer is just as good.

With forretress you do not need spikes as skarmory already lays down an entry hazard teach it stealth rock instead if you want another entry hazard, mainly because it hits flyers and levitate pokemon.

The gyarados seems great, just two things which I would change is replace the item with the berry which reduces damage from electric moves, I cannot remember the name as they all have weird names but that could come in handy, also have an adamant nature instead of jolly for the extra power because he is already naturally speedy.

I don't usually use gengar but the one problem is explosion as that's a physical move on a special attack pokemon which means lower damage perhaps replace it with energy ball

And breloom looks classy, although you could teach it stone edge to take down flyers which could stall it.

Hey, thanks for the tips! I am still not sure about the item that Skarmory should hold, but since it does not carry Brave Bird, then I think I'll give it a shed shell. And thanks for the tips on Gengar and Breloom, too.
But I don't get what you said about forretress. Skarmory sets the stealth rocks, should I have another pokemon with SR for backup? And about Gyarados, his main goal is to have high attack and speed, and for that I kinda need the life orb, because I don't like to stay locked into an attack by using a choice band. I don't really need it to be bulky, I just need it to be fast and strong.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I got into a cave that was so freaking dark that it pissed me off...

Oh sorry I must've misread I was in a rush. Sorry I thought skarmory had the spikes and not stealth rock. But on gyarados give the electric power reducing berry that is what I always give my one and it comes in handy as it can actually survive one hit which could mean the difference between a sweep and faint. Also I would get rid of stone edge for bounce for the STAB bonus.